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Up and coming author, Meg Donahue’s debut novel, How to Eat a Cupcake comes out today! In honor of her and her novel we are doing a giveaway . One of our fabulous ATC readers will get their very own autographed copy of How to Eat a Cupcake.

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Free-spirited Annie Quintana and sophisticated Julia St. Clair come from two different worlds. Yet, as the daughter of the St. Clairs’ housekeeper, Annie grew up in Julia’s San Francisco mansion and they forged a bond that only two little girls oblivious to class differences could—until a life-altering betrayal destroyed their friendship.

A decade later, Annie bakes to fill the void left in her heart by her mother’s death, and a painful secret jeopardizes Julia’s engagement to the man she loves. A chance reunion prompts the unlikely duo to open a cupcakery, but when a mysterious saboteur opens up old wounds, they must finally face the truth about their past or risk losing everything.

When eating a cupcake first to go is the wrapper. I like to pull apart the bottom portion of cake and take frosting from the top ensuring each bite has equal cake to frosting ratio.then eat the remaining top portion of the cupcake. Cupcakes are love in a wrapper!

The first thing I do when eating a cupcake is to pull of the wrapper. After that I break the cake in to two even parts and stick the bottom part on the top, like a sandwich. Then I take a big bite. Yummmm.

The first thing I do is take the wrapper off. Then I split the cupcake in half and eat the cupcake with a fork (I know I use a fork :/ ) then I take small fork fulls making sure there is frosting and cake in each bite. I take about 15 minutes to eat the cupcake making sure I enjoy each and every flavor in a bite.

-Take of the wrapping and lick of the crumbs!!
– taste a bit of frosting
-then taste a bite of cake
– then take a bite of both together and enjoy the blending of the scrumpcious flavours
– take a moment to appreciate
-then……
YOU PIG OUT AND EAT THE DELICIOUS MORSEL OF CAKE AND FROSTING!!!!!!!
I LOVE CUPCAKES!!!!
ILC ILC ILC ILC ILC ILC ILC ILC
I LOVE CUPCAKES!!!!

I start by peeling off the wrapper, then biting into the moist cake, then a bit of frosting and some more cake. Then a bit more cake and finally, when I’m down to the last bite, I always make sure there’s a huge glob of frosting with just a hint of cake underneath. That’s the best (especially when it’s chocolate frosting)! Yum, delicious and creative cupcakes really are a ‘novel’ty aren’t they? (:

First, I have to get just a little taste of the frosting with my tongue. Then after peeling the entire liner off, I fit as much of the cupcake and frosting in my mouth as I can. If that does not work as well as it should, I try my hardest to eat proportional amounts of the frosting and cake or I end up eating the frosting and the cake separately.

I bake mine, for me and my baby girl because we like them fresh out of the oven. We like any kind of cupcakes with any kind of topping. Except nuts. Never liked how nuts ruin a perfectly good cupcake:)

This may sound odd… But I can only eat a cupcake, once I am settled at home, either on my couch or bed, dressed all cozy and it must be a calm environment for the most part… My 3 guys know that when Mommy takes out a cupcake, she needs to kick back and just absorb the moment!! I am that obssessed with cupcakes. It’s really sad. (well, not for me) :)

Ok well, I don’t eat many cakes these days, but when I do they have generally been made by my 16 year old daughter (the queen of cakes in our house) she now makes a “healthier” version using fromage blanc – so if we have them I make a nice cup of something, tea, coffee or hot choc – then I break it in half and then half again so I have 4 lovely pieces to work my way through. It’s a slow process as I want to enjoy every mouthful, she has made them with love and that’s what comes through the taste – she makes nice healthy ones so that her Mum can enjoy cupcake eating with less cals and less guilt :D

I love to try and take a huge bite first that includes icing and cake. Then I will use a spoon on larger cupcakes to get an equal amount of cake and icing together. If there are toppings I tend to eat 75% of them first before every biting in.

I set a pretty small plate on the table with a fork and a napkin. The cupcake is set on the plate for me to admire for a moment before it is destroyed a small bit at a time. If there is a cherry on top, (it better have a stem!) I pick it up with two fingers and pop it into my mouth. Mmmm. No cherry? Time to unwrap! The paper comes off and is wadded into a little moist ball and tucked under the plate out of sight. Ahhhh… NOW the fun begins. With my fork I take small bites starting at the edges, making sure frosting is in every bite. If I find a filling (oh sweet surprise!) I PICK UP the cupcake and take bites until the filling is gone. Now… my fingers are already messy, so I finish off the cupcake in hand, licking my fingers and my lips to make sure I have ALL the good stuff. I wipe my face and fingers with the napkin. Nothing to drink? If the cupcake was moist as it should be (and mine are!) I didn’t need anything to drink!!

When I eat a cupcake I peel off the wrapper take one nice bite then I take half of the bottom and put it on top of the icing like a cupcake sandwich and finish it off….if its a filled cup cake I eat it nice and slow it enjoy all the flavors, the cake the icing and the filling. I take one big bite then take a little nibble of the icing…then the filling…then the cake.

I put out a cold cup of smooth creamy milk, then I set out the delicious specimen of cake and frosting goodness. Then taste frosting. Then a taste of cake. Then together!!! *yum* I lick my lips…. Oui, Oui, Oui, Mecri!!!!!! I then use a spoon(weird ya?) and take small bite of the cupcake making sure each has a bit of both the frosting and cake.
•Je t’aime, Je t’adore•
Oh golly. If I think its super duper good I will get another for my adorable 3 year old cousin.
She always eats it by first licking up every bit of frosting. *nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom* Then she take of the wrapper and nibbles the crumbs off. nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom* Then she takes a large bite of the delicious cupcake. nom-nom-nom-nom-nom-nom* Then she starts nibbling. Anfter shes done she licks her lips and somehow we all notice she got frosting on her nose and we all laugh! *hardy-har-har*

How I eat a cupcake:
(Btw this is a very methodical process :] )
First: I take off the wrapper and tear the bottom of the cake off and eat it.
Second: I lick all the frosting off the top
Third: I finish the rest of the cake
Same way, every time! Haha

I have 2 methods, my first one is just how a cupcake was intended to be eaten, open the wrapper and dive in (no forks). My second method is only used when sharing with friends. Cut the cupcake into 4 pieces, and pop that quarter in your mouth. On occasion, if I’m eating a saved half of a cupcake, I might use a fork. But it doesn’t happen often. :)

Eat a cupcake like its your first. Like a child jumping in a puddle for the first time, like seeing a rainbow after a storm, snow on Christmas morning, like puppy kisses, a spring flower beginning to bloom and finding your quarter on your pillow and knowing the tooth fairy left it. Eat it with excitement and enjoy each mouth full like it is a taste from Heaven! <3

Get a plate & a fork-yes that’s right I do! Peel the paper off first.Then, if it’s a divine looking cupcake I dive right in with my fork and just keep going if it’s as good as it looks. If it’s just nice looking, I slowly taste it and speed is decided from there. If it’s just a basic cupcake to feel the need because that’s what’s available, I don’t bother with a plate & fork-just peel paper and eat.

carefully remove paper liner – gently nibble sprinkles or other toppings – one big bite from bottom of cupcake to as high on the frosting as possible – eat remaining cupcake with a plastic (yes, plastic) fork and knife – the utensils help each slice have cupcake and frosting in every bite – lick all frosting from plastic fork, plate, fingers, etc. – look in mirror to see if my tounge is bright purple or green – grin!

cupcakes….ohhh my, have a few ways, if i make them with filling, i have to do the ‘dainty’ way, with a fork on a plate…So ‘Elizabethan’

but if no center of yumminess, then i do the ‘Smash-mich’, splitting the cuppie in half, and flipping the top with the frosting over the bottom and having that great ‘distribution’ of frosting and ‘SMASHING’ it, gently of course…and munch, munch, munch, licking fingers all the way <3

I quickly sneak into the kitchen and shove as much of the cupcake in my mouth without anything showing and then I go and pat my little one to sleep trying to make sure she doesn’t notice what I am eating. But then she lets out a “hey, you have cupcake.”

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